Date: 12/9/2008 - 12/10/2008

Location: Chicago

Seminars For Engineers, USA, a division of Sensor Products Inc., announces its two-day technical seminar Web Handling 1: Understanding Web Handling Systems (an all new update to its previous Web Handling and Converting seminar). This seminar teaches the must-know areas of web handling, including tension control, roller design and alignment, nips, guiding, wrinkling and spreading. The training will address these topics at all levels, providing rules of thumb and their basis in engineering mechanics. Extensive class notes include hundreds of illustrations to help understand advanced concepts. Instructed by Tim Walker, a web handling technology authority, the course is applicable to any web-based product, including paper, film, metals, nonwovens, textiles, or any combination of coated or laminated webs. It is intended for product and process designers, process engineers, quality, maintenance and lead operators, as well as sales and service personnel.

About the instructor:

Tim Walker has been a process development engineer for over 25 years. While at 3M (as corporate web handling technology leader, leading 3M's web handling process development lab and their corporate process technology management committee) and as an independent consultant, he's worked on wide, high speed operations for commodity products and small, precision manufacturing for magnetic, imaging, electronic, and biomedical applications. He's worked with films of all types, a variety of papers, several different foils, high tech fabrics, nonwovens, and many types of laminates and coated products. For processes, he's worked on continuous coating, pattern coating, printing, continuous laminating, flexible packaging, film-making, paper-making, foil processing, slitter-rewinding, and many varied and amazing web-based processes. A graduate of both the University of Iowa (BS/Mechanical Engineering) and the University of Minnesota (MS in Management of Technology), Tim is currently a highly sought-after consultant, active author for major industry publications, and technical presenter, and is presently on the technical advisory panel for AIMCAL. He is president of TJWalker+Associates Inc, providing services in web-based processes and technology management.

www.SeminarsForEngineers.com/converting